Where are all the women online? I need your help!

During my stint guest editing Dollymix, I've spent a lot of time wandering aimlessly about the internet, trying to find where all the cool kid hangouts for women are on the web. And either I'm losing my touch, or the internet is still coming up very short in that department. Where the hell are all the women online?

I actually started Shiny Shiny, way back in the mists of time, *because* I couldn't find anything I really wanted to read that was just for laydeez. I found most attempts at women's magazines online nauseating, mostly because old media still doesn't understand that writing for people online is a very different thing to writing a print magazine.

And while there were loads of great personal blogs written by women, finding something really compelling to read during my lunch break (obviously I never read websites during work hours *cough*) was next to impossible.

So where are all the women hanging out now? I've got my own list of favourites, which I'm going to do a handy round up especially for you, but if you've got any bright ideas and secret places you go to when you're wandering the web, please drop me an email or leave me a comment.

I'm especially looking for UK women's magazines and websites, forums and social networks or social bookmarking services because the UK still seems to be very overshadowed by the web might of the US. Which is kind of sad in 2008.

Katie is editorial director and co-founder of Shiny Media, which publishes this lovely blog you're reading.

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